Two volumes, octavo; many photographic illustrations, eight maps at the end (three folding and one double-page); original pictorial cloth, in very fine condition.First edition in the original Norwegian; very scarce. a superb copy, with the pictorial bindings... More

Octavo, with photogravure portrait frontispiece, three coloured maps (folding), 18 plates and numerous photographic illustrations; an excellent copy in the original gilt and silver decorated pictorial cloth, top edge gilt and others uncut.The very scarce first issue... More

[BROWN, Robert N. Rudmose, Robert Cockburn MOSSMAN and J.H. HARVEY-PIRIE]

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. 1906.

The joint work of three expedition members

Octavo, frontispiece and 59 photographic plates (mostly with two images), three maps (two folding and coloured); original pictorial cloth.First edition, with the binding in Rosove's variant 'a'. This is the scarce official account of the ill-financed... More

Large octavo, portrait frontispiece, four maps (two folding) and illustrations; in contemporary half tan morocco.First edition of Byrd's account of his pioneering two-year aerial exploration of the Antarctic, during which he became the first man to fly... More

Upsala: Johan Edman, 1783. Small octavo, with the half-title, early owner's names to preliminaries, contemporary navy-blue papered boards, manuscript label.A very rare edition, a Swedish-language compliation derived from both the official account of Cook's second voyage and Georg Forster's unofficial Voyage round the World. Issued the same year as... More

"The Officer": one of the earliest published accounts of the Antarctic

Quarto, with the cancel second-issue title-page slightly shorter than the text-block (as usual); a very good copy in old maroon cloth with spine label.Very rare: one of the earliest accounts of Cook's... More

Two volumes, quarto, with a folding map and 16 engraved plates, some folding; contemporary mottled calf.Cook's second voyage and travels in South Africa, by the famous Swedish naturalist. This is the first edition in French, the most profusely illustrated of the... More

Octavo, folding frontispiece map and five plates, leaf D2 a cancel as usual; in later polished light tan calf.First edition: the first full account of Cook's second voyage to have been published, and the earliest... More

Eight volumes bound in seven, duodecimo; a very attractive set in contemporary patterned wrappers, with hand-lettered papered spine labels.Rare Swedish edition of Dumont d'Urville's historical account of voyages around the world from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries... More

Paris: circa 1846. Tinted lithograph, 220 x 365 mm., disbound.Original lithograph from Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage au Pole Sud", showing a beautiful New Guniea harbor scene, with the two ships anchored and a survey party at work. Dumont d'Urville's instruction from King Louis-Philippe was to explore the South Pole. Up... More

Hand-coloured lithograph, 190 x 300 mm.Original lithograph from Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage au Pole Sud", showing the Derwent River with, in the foreground, a coach-and-four going at full speed. At this time coaches were running between Hobart and New Norfolk; Craig notes that this... More

Paris: circa 1845. Tinted lithograph, 230 x 380 mm., mounted in acid-free card.Original lithograph from Dumont d'Urville's Voyage au Pole Sud, the official published account of his second voyage through the South Pacific into Antarctic waters. Dumont d'Urville's instruction from King Louis-Philippe was to explore the South Pole. Up... More

Two volumes, octavo, with four splendid folding maps; in contemporary navy half calf, marbled boards, edges and endpapers.Second edition, publishing the results of the 1819-1822 expedition to the polar north under the command of Sir John... More

Leipzig: List & von Bressensdorf, 1930. Octavo, illustrated throughout; in original wrappers.Only edition of this guide to Australia and the Pacific, which details the importance and possible influence Germany could have in the development Germany could have if their Colonial interests were expanded. In the process, the work gives... More

Lithograph portrait; 295 x 240 mm., wide margins, mounted.A fine portrait of the botanist Sir Joseph Hooker (1817-1911). Son of the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (whom he later succeeded in the... More

London: John Murray, 1859. Octavo, with four maps (three folding), folding facsimile of record found of Franklin's Expedition, larger folding map in rear pocket of the binding; 14 wood engraved illustrations; original gilt decorated blue cloth.First edition: the discovery of the fate of John Franklin's final expedition. Jane Franklin... More

London: Published by the executors of the late James Asperne, 1821. Stipple engraving, 145 x 220 mm., gently creased at one corner, very good.Contemporary engraved portrait of the great Arctic explorer and Australian settler. Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855) was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer who also served... More

London: John Murray, 1914. Two volumes, large octavo, extensively illustrated including a frontispiece in each volume, six photogravures and 18 coloured plates, many full-page black & white plates, maps, diagrams, and a panorama; a good copy in original blue ribbed cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, spines sunned.Fifth edition... More